Tag: LGBT Issues

Taylor Swift performs at Wango Tango at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Taylor Swift is the one who needs to ‘Calm Down’

Madeline Fry Schultz · June 17, 2019 8:43 pm

A monumental stair at the FDR Four Freedoms State Park is transformed into a giant, rainbow-hued LGBTQ flag in celebration of WorldPride, Monday, June 17, 2019, on Roosevelt Island in New York.

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NYT writer’s ‘Case for gay reparation’ is incredibly weak

Brad Polumbo · June 17, 2019 8:06 pm

A customer inserts a credit card to pay for something.

Mastercard lets transgender users choose names on their cards (if banks agree)

Noah Garfinkel, James Langford · June 17, 2019 7:21 pm

Because Aaron and Melissa Klein of Sweet Cakes by Melissa could not write a message affirming same-sex marriage on a cake, the Oregon government penalized them.

Supreme Court sends Oregon same-sex wedding cake case back to lower court

Melissa Quinn · June 17, 2019 1:47 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on foreign policy and national security during a speech at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, June 11, 2019.

Buttigieg: It’s ‘almost certain’ we’ve had a gay president

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 12:12 pm

In this March 20, 2017 photo, Nkechi Diallo, then known as Rachel Dolezal, poses for a photo in Spokane, Wash.

Rachel Dolezal comes out as bisexual during Pride Month

Julio Rosas · June 16, 2019 8:20 pm

Transgender track athlete: ‘Me competing against cisgender females is a disadvantage’

Julio Rosas · June 16, 2019 7:24 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at a grassroots event on Friday, June 14, 2019, in Alexandria, Va.

Buttigieg has ‘every confidence’ he can win religious African Americans

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2019 4:37 pm

Members of the National Socialists Movement and the White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan salute during a rally Saturday April 21, 2012, at the Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. At least 70 law enforcement officers were present to control a crowd of 150 to 200 demonstrators when a group of neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members rallied against illegal immigration on the steps of the Kentucky Capitol.

Beltway Confidential

The First Amendment protects everyone, even despicable neo-Nazis marching at a Pride festival

Beth Bailey · June 15, 2019 12:00 pm

Ingraham cuts off anti-gay guest after he promotes The Health Hazards of Homosexuality

John Gage · June 14, 2019 7:55 pm

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Bye bye brony

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 14, 2019 3:00 am

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to speak during a media availability, at the State Department, Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Washington. Pompeo says Iran is believed to be responsible for attacks on 2 tankers near Persian Gulf.

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Making sense of the State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights

Roger Pilon · June 13, 2019 8:48 pm